README

gnome-schedule
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o. See the file COPYING for the license.
o. See the AUTHORS file for the authors of this tool
o. See the INSTALL file for information about installing this tool
o. Checkout the doc/ directory for user documentation
Dependencies
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Gnome Schedule needs (at least)
o. at
o. crontab
o. Python
o. PyGTK >= 2.3
o. Python GConf
o. su
Support
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o. Mailinglists: You can talk to the developers and some other users
of gnome-schedule here:
o. http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gnome-schedule-users
There is also a development list here:
o. http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gnome-schedule-devel
INSTALL from source:
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o. Because some people dislike the fact that manually compiled
applications tamper with their distribution which is managed by the
packaging system in use. We understand this and therefore made it
possible to install the application outside of any default prefix.
o. If you want to use the sources pulled from the subversion server you need automake-1.7 and gnome-common.
o. The following commands will install gnome-schedule on a system that has python and automake-1.7 and some tools like gmake installed.
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/git/gnome-schedule
$ pushd gnome-schedule
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install
# and to start gnome-schedule:
$ /usr/local/bin/gnome-schedule
# You can read the script to know how to start the Python-script
# manually. If PyGTK is not installed in your default prefix,
# you, in case you are planning not to use the script, would have
# to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable first! The generated
# script, however, will do all this for you (if you use the
# script).
Important notes
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If you have previous records in 'at', gnome-schedule may have problems reading them and they are marked with DANGEROUS PARSE in the list if a unsecure method was used. There are no risk that the record will be lost or damaged unless you open it for editing and press apply, but we have tested many different setups and it should work fine.
Some comments right after existing records in crontab may return weird results for title and icon, normally this doesn't damage anything.
Compiling and HACKING
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GNOME Schedule is written using the programming language Python
and uses the PyGTK and Python-GConf bindings.
You can talk to the developers of gnome-schedule about development
related issues here:
o. http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gnome-schedule-devel
To compile GNOME Schedule from git you will also need
o. A git client
o. autoconf and the other auto* tools (version >= 1.7)
o. gnome-common which you can pull from the git.gnome.org
To run GNOME Schedule from the source directory
o. Enter src/
o. run 'python gnome-schedule.py --debug'
This will use images and datafiles from the current directory. Remember this is only for debugging and might not always work as expected.
To make contributions you should first read
o. HACKING
o. AUTHORS
o. The source code itself :-)
To help with translations
o. Check out the po/ directory. You can use gTranslator and
the other intl tools for translations. You should contact
the GNOME Translation team as they are the responsible
organisation for the translation of the GNOME desktop
o. Check out the help/ directory for translations of the documentation
o. Other than only the generated po-files you should also
check out the file src/lang.py